Experimenting With Lemonade
About lemonade: it can get interesting.
It doesn't always have to be the sugary high-calorie version or the oddly vacant diet formula.
Recently, I found this very different recipe for spicy Indian lemonade.*
The Ingredients:
1 tsp. fennel seed
1 star anise
1 tsp. fresh grated ginger
2-3 whole lemons, squeezed
1/4 cup of fresh mint leaves loosely packed
2 Tbsp. sugar (you can add two more Tbsp. to taste)
2 cups of water
2 cups of ice
The Recipe:
In a frying pan, stir the fennel and the star anise and toast them dry -without oil- constantly stirring until they are nicely browned.
Then ground them up in a Magic Bullet or coffee grinder
Then get out your blender and toss them in with the ginger, the juice from the squeezed lemons, the fresh mint, sugar, water and blend.
Pour through a strainer to get out the bits.
Put it back in the blender and add in the ice and hit the blender until the ice is crushed.
It makes about 4 servings, each of which is about 31 calories in the 2 Tbsp. sugar version and about 51 calories in the 4 Tbsp. version.
Enjoy!
-bbffair
* For a version of this and other wonderful lemonades and drinks, as well as many awesome dishes, visit:
http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/search/delegate?searchString=lemonade
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The beautiful picture above is "Lemonade" by Suat Eman courtesy of http://www.freedigitalphotos
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